sunstruckadj.
/ˈsʌnstrʌk/, U.S. /ˈsənˌstrək/ Struck by the rays or heat of the sun; spec. suffering from sunstroke. Cf. sunstricken adj.
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sunstruck1749
sun-smitten1797
sunstricken1826
1749 A. Hill Gideon (rev. ed.) i. 24 Whose sun-struck Weapons flash'd a threat'ning Gleam.
1754 Power & Efficacy Medicinal Snuff (ed. 6) 5 His Distemper..is of a Kind little understood: It is what they call in the West-Indies being Sun-struck.
1794 T. Dwight Greenfield Hill vii. 154 Idolatry fans off the vernal breeze, And sun-struck Labour, phrenzied, sinks to peace.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 135 Like a stag, sunstruck, top thy bounds and die.
1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 76 I must go out and get my bonnet for fear I get sunstruck.
1937 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 36 908/2 A sunstruck person should be put in the shade at once and given water.
1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 14 Grey salt-bush, tufts of coarse brownish grass, and stony soil merge into the sun-struck distance.
1989 M. Kramer Making Sense of Wine vi. 131 The effect of sunlight upon wine is straightforward. A ‘sunstruck’ wine is oxidized.
2014 Telegraph (Nexis) 8 Aug. (Sports section) Reid offers a hearty greeting like a sunstruck madman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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